I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

Lycans are human.

Fight back. Bite back.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

Reece?" she asked softly."Hmmm?""Kiss me."And he did. There wasn't even a possibility of saying no.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.